A Golden Jubilee…
Bangladesh celebrates its Victory Day on December 16 every year to commemorate the victory of the Combined Forces in support of a Free Bangladesh over the Pakistani Forces in the […]
A Reconstructive Destruction?
A section of the Indians still exhibits satisfaction with the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Otherwise, the National Democratic Alliance, led by the PM, would definitely have failed to […]
Up Against Orthodoxy…
Indian Historian Ramchandra Guha has described Marathi writer Hamid Umar Dalwai (September 29, 1932 – May 3, 1977) as India’s Last Liberal in his publication ‘Makers of Modern India‘. The […]
Excavated & Inferred!
They were lying in a layer of gray ash at least 2mt deep for the last 2,000 years, unnoticed! The Officials in Italy recently discovered their skeletal remains during excavation […]
Different Interpretations…
The Historic Environment Scotland – an executive non-departmental public body responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment – has set out to write a new account of […]
Into That Heaven Of Freedom…
A hillock cannot always be seen from a distant. However, one can see a Mountain Peak from the same. India recently marked the 131st Birth Anniversary of its first Prime […]
The Silently Sonorous Structures
Since 1350 BC, the Colossi of Memnon – two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III who reigned in Egypt during the 18th Dynasty – have been standing in […]
Lives: Lies & Truth!
Biographies usually become popular, if they are unauthorised! In other words, when a person does not have a control while depicting activities and events of her/his life, many of the […]
Time Tells…
The time difference is exactly 60 years… Six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges Hall had entered William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana, New Orleans on November 14, 1960! In a rare first, […]
